Emergency Response Team Leader Skills Maintenance

The Emergency Response Team Leader Skills Maintenance course at ERGT Australia refreshes leadership and technical skills for fire, rescue, breathing apparatus, confined space, and height safety operations to keep team leaders competent in high-risk environments.

The Emergency Response Team Leader Skills Maintenance course at ERGT Australia is designed for learners responsible for leading emergency response teams in high-risk operations. This skills maintenance program ensures leaders remain confident, capable, and current in applying advanced fire, rescue, and safety procedures while directing teams under pressure.

The course outcomes align with:

• Firefighting

• Lead Emergency Teams

• Confined Space Entry

• Height Safety

• Breathing Apparatus

• Rescue from Heights

• Rescue from Confined Space

It is recommended that learners have previously completed these units before attending this skills maintenance program. Physical fitness is required due to the demands of breathing apparatus, confined space entry, height safety, and rescue activities.

• By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
• Assess the nature and extent of the emergency
• Effect rescue of personnel at risk
• Confine the spread of emergency
• Breathing Apparatus
• Firefighting
• Select, inspect and conduct checks on firefighting equipment
• Demonstrate safe use of firefighting equipment and conduct search and rescue
• Conclude operations
• Enter Confined Space Entry
• Undertake Risk assessment – including completion of documentation, and development of contingency management plans
• Select, inspect and install appropriate confined space safety equipment
• Demonstrate safe use of confined space safety equipment
• Demonstrate implementation of contingency management plans
• Conclude operations
• Heights Safety
• Identify work requirements
• Identify work procedures and instructions
• Access and install equipment
• Perform work at heights
• Clean up work area
• Breathing Apparatus
• Select, inspect and conduct checks on breathing apparatus equipment
• Demonstrate safe use of breathing equipment
• Conclude operations
• Rescue from Heights
• Demonstration of the function, ratings and equipment checks for equipment used for rescue from height using preset systems
• Use of key terminology associated with rescue from height equipment during use
• Identify the appropriate stretcher for given rescue scenarios
• Demonstrate basic principles for use of stretchers in rescue scenarios
• Demonstration use of a spinal board
• Rescue from Confined Space
• Prepare for confined space rescue operation
• Assess and manage confined space rescue
• Determine location and condition of casualties
• Gain entry to confined space
• Remove casualties
• Conclude rescue operations